page_title: Francis Bromley
section_title: Marriage and family
hierarchical_section_title: Francis Bromley / Marriage and family
caption_attribution_description: English: St Peter the Apostle, Worfield, Shropshire. Effigies of Edward Bromley, a judge of the 16th and 17th centuries, and Margaret Lowe, his wife.
context_page_description: Francis Bromley was an English politician. A member of an important legal and landowning dynasty of the Shropshire landed gentry, his career was cut short by an early death. He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Shropshire in 1584.
context_section_description: Bromley married in 1581 Joyce Leighton, Latinised as Jocosa in the Heraldic Visitation and elsewhere, although this is a misunderstanding of the name. Joyce Leighton was the daughter of:
  Edward Leighton of Wattlesborough.
  Anne Darrell, daughter of Paul Darrell of Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire.
  This was a marriage of equals, with both partners coming from the dominant group of county gentry families. Edward Leighton was a powerful force politically in Shropshire during the 1580s. He was a member of the Council in the Marches and became custos rotulorum of his county in 1587.
  Francis Bromley and Joyce Leighton had two children:
  Thomas Bromley, the heir, who married Eleanor Jenks but died without issue in 1610, leaving the Bromley estates to Edward Bromley, Francis's younger brother. Edward died in 1626, also without issue, leaving them to Sir George's third son, also called George.
  Jane Bromley, who married William Davenport.
  Hallon became the focus of a bitter legal wrangle, lasting over several decades, the origin of which is recounted by Randall, the historian of Worfield, with some apologies for straying into the "region of tradition, but tradition fortified by facts." Joyce Leighton remarried after the death of Francis Bromley, becoming the second wife of Walter Wrottesley of Wrottesley Park, near Tettenhall: a remarriage mentioned by the Visitation of Shropshire and Burke's Peerage. William Davenport and Jane Bromley allegedly eloped after a secret and forbidden courtship in the grounds of Wrottesley. Subsequently, they put forward a claim to Hallon, which Edward Bromley had assumed was his. The family dispute was ultimately to be resolved in the Davenports' favour, with Hallon becoming Davenport House.
caption: Effigies of Edward Bromley and Margaret Lowe, his wife, in Worfield parish church. Edward, Francis's younger brother, inherited the Bromley properties in 1610 on the death, sine prole, of Francis's son, Thomas.
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